Abu Alaa al-Walae, commander of Kataib Sayyid al-Shuhadam, speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in Baghdad, Iraq, July 5, 2021. (Photo: Khalid Mohammed/AP)
A screenshot of a video by the outgoing UK Consul General in Erbil James Thornton posted on social media on July 2, 2021. (Photo: UK Consulate-General in Erbil)
A protester confronts police officers preventing the group from marching against the Turkish government’s decision to withdraw from Istanbul Convention, in Istanbul, July 1, 2021. (Photo: Kemal Aslan/AP)
US Secretary of Defence Donald Rumsfeld posing with troops assigned to Al-Asad Air Base in Iraq's restive Al-Anbar province, Dec. 9, 2006. (Photo: Cherie a Thurlby/ DOD/ AFP)
An aerial picture shows mourners gathering around coffins during a mass funeral for Yazidi victims of the Islamic State (IS) group village of Kojo in Sinjar distric, Feb. 6, 2021. (Photo: Zaid al-Obeidi/AFP)
Masrour Barzani (Right) Prime Minister of the Kurdistan Regional Government, with Christoph Buik, Head of the European Union Advisory Mission in Iraq EUAM, June 30, 2021. (Photo: KRG)
America’s newly appointed Consul General in Erbil Robert Palladino speaks to reporters in 2018 when he served as the State Department’s deputy spokesperson. (Photo: Department of State)
Kurdistan Region Prime Minister Masrour Barzani (right) walks alongside the Philippines’ Ambassador to Iraq Generoso D.G. Calonge, June 29, 2021. (Photo: KRG)
